edited by John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, Alex Willingham.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Temple University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1990.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Labor and social change
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"It has to come from the people": responding to plant closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia / Maxine Waller [and others] -- People power: working for the future in the East Kentucky coalfields / Kristin Layng Szakos -- Voices from the coalfields: how miners' families understand the crisis of coal / Mike Yarrow -- Women miners can dig it, too! / Betty Jean Hall -- Organizing women for local economic development / Chris Weiss -- Organizing rural tobacco farmers: Central Kentucky in global context / Hal Hamilton -- From the mountains to the Maquiladoras: a case study of capital flight and its impact on workers / John Gaventa -- Betrayal of trust: the impact of economic development policy upon working citizens / John Bookser-Feister and Leah Wise.
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New work force, new organizing: the experience of women office workers and 9 to 5 / Cindia Cameron -- The changing international division of labor: links with Southern Africa / Ann Seidman -- Community-based economics education: a personal, cultural, and political project / Wendy Luttrell -- Interactions of economics and spirituality: some perspectives from Creole culture / Deborah Clifton Hils -- Toward a human service economy / Richard A. Couto -- National economic renewal programs and their implications for Appalachia and the South / Steve Fisher -- Toward a new debate: development, democracy, and dignity / John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Alex Willingham.
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Worker organizing in South Carolina: a community-based approach / Charles D.M. Taylor -- Voting rights and community empowerment: political struggle in the Georgia Black Belt / Alex Willingham -- Race, development, and the character of Black political life in Bogalusa, Louisiana / Rickey Hill -- Economic slavery or hazardous wastes?: Robeson County's economic menu / Richard Regan and Mac Legerton -- The Mayhaw Tree: an informal case study in homegrown rural economic development / Ralph Hils -- Saturn: tomorrow's jobs, yesterday's myths / Carter Garber -- Environmentalism, economic blackmail, and civil rights: competing agendas within the Black community / Robert D. Bullard.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Economic development projects-- Appalachian Region, Case studies.
Economic development projects-- Southern States, Case studies.
Projets de développement économique-- Appalaches-- Cas, Études de.
Projets de développement économique-- États-Unis (Sud)
Aufsatzsammlung
Economic development projects.
Economic history.
Strukturpolitik
Wirtschaftskrise
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Appalachian Region, Economic conditions, Case studies.